Help!

Are you someone who is willing and able to ask for help? Think about that one for a moment. Do you truly allow others to see you if you are vulnerable or weak or unable to finish a task?

We all need a little assistance sometimes, that much is true, but being able to give assistance to someone else is, for many, the easier of the two.

Helping someone else can make you feel needed and useful, adds to your sense of purpose. God has given you talents and resources and know-how and you can use all of those things, plus some practical experience, to help out a fellow human. What a blessing to be a blessing!

But if you are the one who has to ask for assistance sometimes words like failure, incapable, incompetent, ignorant, useless get bandied about. I hope that you would speak to yourself more kindly than that if you are unable to accomplish a task by yourself. If you heard a sibling in Christ expressing this opinion of themselves, you’d probably try to correct them! Even in our worst moments, that is not how God speaks to us.

Asking for help is not my forte. It is a skill I am continuing to learn. Each time I think I’ve learned the lesson, I find myself back in a place where I’m going to injure myself trying to do something beyond the scope of one person. Or squeezed behind an appliance on the verge of tears, covered in grime, and using all the swear words I know (I know plenty).

It is my well informed theological theory that God wants us to ask for help when we need it. Psalm 121 reminds us that God will send that help. Asking for help is trusting God to assist us in our times of need. May God send you all the help you need… and may you ask for help!